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Re:What Happened to Perl 7? by danrocks on Thursday May 26, 2022 @05:38AM (#31516399)
Amazon's language for storefront UI templates is Perl [1]. When I joined, I couldn't help but laugh that poor developers are dragged through the hell of 5 leetcode interviews to end up working on a UI framework that is 25 years old.

[1] http://www.masonhq.com/sites

Edit: I left in 2013 so I don't know if it's still the case.

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Re:What Happened to Perl 7? by alfiedotwtf on Thursday May 26, 2022 @08:35AM (#31517532)
To be fair, HTML::Mason was probably the most powerful templating toolkit at the time (Text::Template was there too, but from memory Mason was almost everyone's goto).
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